Bard

Recommended Build

Patch 16.11 · Diamond+ Solo Queue · Updated 6/9/2026

50.4% Based on 1,563 games wr in Support

Build path

1. Boots any step
   

   Boots of Swiftness

   1000 gold

   55 Move Speed
   
   Fleetfooted
   Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 25%.

   Boots of Swiftness

   62% pick · 50.6% Based on 880 picks wr
2. Item 1 2 options
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     Dead Man's Plate

     2900 gold

     350 Health
     55 Armor
     4% Move Speed
     
     Shipwrecker
     While moving, build up to 20 bonus Move Speed. Your next Attack discharges built up Move Speed to deal bonus physical damage.
     
     Unsinkable
     Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 15%.
     Dead Man's Plate

     79% pick · 51.3% Based on 1,196 picks wr
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     Locket of the Iron Solari

     2200 gold

     200 Health
     30 Armor
     30 Magic Resist
     10 Ability Haste
     
     Devotion
     Grant nearby allies a 290 - 360 Shield that decays over 2.5 seconds.
     or Locket of the Iron Solari

     13% pick · 49.0% Based on 204 picks wr
3. Item 2 3 options
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     Locket of the Iron Solari

     2200 gold

     200 Health
     30 Armor
     30 Magic Resist
     10 Ability Haste
     
     Devotion
     Grant nearby allies a 290 - 360 Shield that decays over 2.5 seconds.
     Locket of the Iron Solari

     28% pick · 56.4% Based on 330 picks wr
   • 
     Liandry's Torment

     3000 gold

     60 Ability Power
     300 Health
     
     Torment
     Damaging Abilities burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage per second for 3 seconds.
     
     Suffering
     For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
     or Liandry's Torment

     21% pick · 49.8% Based on 247 picks wr
   • 
     Mikael's Blessing

     2300 gold

     250 Health
     100% Base Mana Regen
     12% Heal and Shield Power
     15 Ability Haste
     
     Purify
     Remove all crowd control debuffs (excluding Airborne and Suppression) from an ally champion and restore 100 - 250 Health.
     or Mikael's Blessing

     11% pick · 55.0% Based on 129 picks wr
4. Item 3 3 options
   • 
     Locket of the Iron Solari

     2200 gold

     200 Health
     30 Armor
     30 Magic Resist
     10 Ability Haste
     
     Devotion
     Grant nearby allies a 290 - 360 Shield that decays over 2.5 seconds.
     Locket of the Iron Solari

     20% pick · 60.7% Based on 89 picks wr
   • 
     Bandlepipes

     2300 gold

     200 Health
     15 Ability Haste
     20 Armor
     20 Magic Resist
     
     Fanfare
     Slowing or Immobilizing an enemy champion grants Fanfare for seconds. Fanfare grants you 20 Move Speed. While you have Fanfare, nearby allies, including yourself, gain Attack Speed.
     or Bandlepipes

     16% pick · 58.6% Based on 70 picks Only 4.5% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr
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     Liandry's Torment

     3000 gold

     60 Ability Power
     300 Health
     
     Torment
     Damaging Abilities burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage per second for 3 seconds.
     
     Suffering
     For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
     or Liandry's Torment

     13% pick · 70.2% Based on 57 picks Only 3.6% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr
5. Item 4 2 options
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     Mikael's Blessing

     2300 gold

     250 Health
     100% Base Mana Regen
     12% Heal and Shield Power
     15 Ability Haste
     
     Purify
     Remove all crowd control debuffs (excluding Airborne and Suppression) from an ally champion and restore 100 - 250 Health.
     Mikael's Blessing

     19% pick · 54.5% Based on 11 picks Only 0.7% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr
   • 
     Liandry's Torment

     3000 gold

     60 Ability Power
     300 Health
     
     Torment
     Damaging Abilities burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage per second for 3 seconds.
     
     Suffering
     For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
     or Liandry's Torment

     12% pick · 57.1% Based on 7 picks Only 0.4% of this role's matches — off-meta (not the usual pick for this role) wr

Most-built legendary at each step (purchase order).

Summoner spells

Flash

Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.

Flash +

Heal

Restores Health and grants Move Speed to you and target allied champion.

Heal 51% · 50.1% Based on 794 picks wr

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Q Cosmic Binding

Bard fires a missile which will slow the first enemy struck, and continue onward. If it strikes a wall, it will stun the initial target; if it strikes another enemy, it will stun them both.

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W Caretaker's Shrine

Reveals a Health shrine which powers up over a short time, disappearing after healing and speeding up the first ally that touches it.

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E Magical Journey

Bard opens a portal in nearby terrain. Allies and enemies alike can take a one-way trip through that terrain by moving into the portal.

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R Tempered Fate

Bard sends spirit energy arcing to a location, putting all champions, minions, monsters, and turrets hit into stasis for a brief time.

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Domination

Electrocute · selected

Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.

Dark Harvest

Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim.

Hail of Blades

Gain a large amount of Attack Speed and bonus true damage for the first 3 attacks made against enemy champions.

Cheap Shot · selected

Deal bonus true damage to enemy champions with impaired movement or actions.

Taste of Blood

Heal when you damage an enemy champion.

Sudden Impact

Damaging basic attacks and abilities deal bonus true damage to enemy champions after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when leaving stealth.

Sixth Sense

On a long Cooldown, automatically sense a nearby untracked and unseen ward, tracking it for the team.

Level 11: Also reveal the ward for 10s.

Grisly Mementos

Collect 1 memento on champion takedowns, up to 18 total.

Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected.

Deep Ward · selected

Your wards in the enemy jungle are Deep, gaining Health and Duration.

Level 9: Wards in the river are also Deep.

Treasure Hunter

Unique takedowns grant additional gold the first time they are collected.

Relentless Hunter · selected

Unique takedowns grant permanent out of combat MS.

Ultimate Hunter

Unique takedowns grant permanent cooldown reduction on your Ultimate.

Inspiration

Hextech Flashtraption

While Flash is on cooldown it is replaced by Hexflash.

Hexflash: Channel, then blink to a new location.

Magical Footwear · selected

You get free boots at 12 min but you cannot buy boots before then. Each takedown you get makes your boots come 45s sooner.

Cash Back

Get some gold back when you purchase Legendary Items.

Triple Tonic

Upon reaching level 3, gain an Elixir of Avarice.
Upon reaching level 6, gain an Elixir of Force.
Upon reaching level 9, gain an Elixir of Skill.

Time Warp Tonic

Potions grant some restoration immediately.

Biscuit Delivery

Gain a free Biscuit every 2 min, until 6 min. Consuming or selling a Biscuit permanently increases your max health and restores health.

Cosmic Insight · selected

+18 Summoner Spell Haste
+10 Item Haste

Approach Velocity

Bonus MS towards nearby enemy champions that are movement impaired, increased for enemy champions that you impair.

Jack Of All Trades

For each different stat gained from items, gain one Jack stack. Each stack grants you 1 Ability Haste.

Gain bonus Adaptive Force at 5 and 10 stacks.

Stat shards

Adaptive Force

+9 Adaptive Force (AD or AP — whichever helps more).

Attack Speed · selected

+10% Attack Speed.

Ability Haste

+8 Ability Haste.

Adaptive Force

+9 Adaptive Force (AD or AP — whichever helps more).

Move Speed · selected

+2% Move Speed.

Bonus Health

+10–180 Bonus Health (based on level).

Health · selected

+65 flat Health.

Tenacity & Slow Resist

+10% Tenacity and Slow Resist.

Bonus Health

+10–180 Bonus Health (based on level).